The governance of competition on global markets is an open policy question (lack of international competition policy). In this paper, it is analyzed to what extent different types of regulatory competition, which in other regulatory contexts (as, e.g., corporate law) can be beneficial, might...

This contribution is a broad (textbook-like) survey on the economic foundations of competition policy. It encompasses a comprehensive overview on both industrial economics and law and economics arguments, as far as they are relevant for competition law. Contents: I. Competition and competition...

A theoretical framework for the analysis and design of a European System of Private Laws and Regulations is presented. Since private laws also encompass a considerable amount of mandatory legal rules (increasingly fuzzy distinction between public and private law), both traditional private law...

Interoperability has become a buzzword in European policy debates on the future of the digital economy. In its Digital Agenda, the EU Commission has identified a lack of interoperability as one of the significant obstacles for the thriving of the digital economy. The EU Commission and a number...

German Abstract: Die Entwicklungen in der digitalen Wirtschaft – insbesondere die zunehmende Bedeutung von (a) Daten als kritische Inputressource in Produktions- und Distributionsprozessen und (b) digitalen Platt- formen auf teils sehr konzentrierten Märkten – werfen die Frage auf, ob das...

Digitization has transformed – and continues to transform – the economy. Among the characteristic features of digitization are the increasing importance of (a) data as a critical input resource in production and distribution processes and of (b) digital platforms as new players in the...

The Internet of Things raises a number of so far unsolved legal and regulatory questions. Particularly important are the issues of privacy, data ownership, and data access. One particularly interesting example are connected cars with their huge amount of produced data. Also based upon the recent...

The digital revolution has reinvigorated the discussion about the problem how to consider innovation in the application of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as what kind of assessment concepts competition...